The Quad CTP Squad

"It streamlines the process and enables us to produce a monthly magazine like a weekly," says Mark C. Wheeler, Quad/Graphics' corporate technical manager. "It closes up all those schedules and gives some time back to our customers because we realize there is a big value in that time."

And it's a big value more and more customers are recognizing. Quad/Graphics installed its first CTP platesetter, a Creo unit, in October of 1995. Today, Quad/Graphics operates 19 Creo platesetters, outputting 52,000 digital plates every month.